“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
Winston Churchill
“He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft”
James Russell Lowell
“suicidal statecraft...the ultimate cause of imperial collapse.”
Zbigniew Brzezinski
“When you look at all instruments of statecraft and how that's pulled together, I think the ambassadors are uniquely poised.”
Henry Crumpton
“But the standards of statecraft insisted upon the untrammeled claim of each nation to uphold its own view of its rights by force and to build whatever armaments it considered necessary for this purpose.”
Arthur Henderson
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
“Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.”
Albert Einstein